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Description of problem: On a fresh install of fedora-15-beta/x86_64 rc2 from the live dvd, after telling the installer to "Use free space" on the disk, it hangs in creating swap partition with a spinning "wait" cursor. I waited about an hour for the operation to complete (hoping it was just very inefficient, but it never completed.) I tried it several times even downloading the net install, but the same thing happens each time. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fedora-15-beta/x86_64 rc2 from the live dvd (also from the net install iso) How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install the live dvd, accepting all defaults up to the disk questions 2. chose use free space for the were to install question 3. watch as the lvm's are created and finally the swap is made. it hangs at the swap creation with spinning "wait" cursor. Actual results: hangs in swap creation Expected results: doesn't hang in swap creation Additional info: The free space was created by deleting a FAT (or NTFS???) partition and adjacent Fedora-14 partition using fdisk run from the live DVD and then rebooting to reread the partition table. The fact that there has never been a swap at this location on the disk may be a factor.
See also Bug 696729 , the subsequent attempt at a live dvd install. The traceback may have information applicable here too.
For the record, I cleaned out the two linux partitions (sda2: 500M, Linux, sda3: 100G Linux LVM) using "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda{2,3} bs=32K". Then I deleted the partitions again with fdisk and rebooted. The next run with use all free space completed without incident. Since the hang happened at least 3 times before I wiped the disk, it sure seems like something was picking up data from the disk and choking on it. I'd have expected that a command that wipes all data on the disk, to not care what was on the disk.
When it hangs, can you use the keyboard to switch to tty2 (ctrl-alt-f2) and see what processes are running? Or, is the machine completely frozen?
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